I think that's PMN Caecilia.

good call!
I think it is PMN Caecilia 55 Roman perhaps?
Ok thank you franz.

Franz, how do you id type so fast? Really... I would like to know. It would be wonderful if I could do this as well.

Do you have certain type books that you use as a resource or are you just so familiar with type that you can simply recall what it is?

I have learned some of the more common types by lurking here in 'Typophile land' for a while. But these more obscure types, at least to me, like PMC Caecilia are something that I have trouble id'ing.

David, it's probably 75 Bold, I myfontified this sample.

I am just a newbie graphic design student at the college level and was hoping to learn how to be quicker in the design process. It is not my intention to be the first one to identify type here on the board. I simply thought it would be nice to gain some of the 'trade secrets'.

excuse me if I crossed some unspoken line.

this is supposed to come off in a very defensive tone

Franz, how do you id type so fast?

Joseph, that wasn't fast by Typophile standards.. I was just lucky that Yves, Karl and the other guys were not around.

Do you have certain type books that you use as a resource or are you just so familiar with type that you can simply recall what it is?

I did read a couple of books, but I don't own any type specimen books. And I haven't been doing this for very long either.. In fact I discovered typography only about a year ago when I started to prepare for design school. I fell in love with type, and I've been learning and researching since then.. This place is great for learning, considering how you get to watch the Godfathers of Type ID (Mike, Mark et al) work their magic.

(Oh, and the not-drinking/smoking-thing might help too, although I'm not exactly sure how that factors in . )

By the way, I first thought the sample David posted was TheSerif, I looked that up and it didn't match, so I tried the other famous "humanist slab", and bingo!

Thanks, Franz. This helps a lot.

Yves, sometimes you come off very harsh... the smilies don't always make up for the perceived tone.

Harsh? Yves??

: )

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